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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Age: 85 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 29
Died: 1894
Died: October 7
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
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I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
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